FKA twigs

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FKA twigs (2015)
FKA twigs (2015)
Chart placements
(preliminary)
Explanation of the data
Albums
LP1
  DE 50 08/22/2014 (1 week)
  AT 42 08/22/2014 (1 week)
  CH 43 08/17/2014 (2 weeks)
  UK 16 08/23/2014 (5 weeks)
  US 30th 08/30/2014 (5 weeks)
Magdalene
  DE 78 11/15/2019 (1 week)
  AT 56 11/22/2019 (1 week)
  CH 60 11/17/2019 (1 week)
  UK 21st 11/21/2019 (1 week)
  US 54 11/23/2019 (1 week)
EPs
M3LL155X
  US 63 05.09.2015 (1 week)
Singles
Fukk Sleep ( feat.ASAP Rocky )
  CH 65 06/03/2018 (1 week)
  UK 99 07.06.2018 (1 week)
Ego Death ( Ty Dolla Sign feat. Kanye West , FKA Twigs & Skrillex )
  DE 92 07/10/2020 (1 week)
  CH 95 07/12/2020 (1 week)
  UK 34 July 16, 2020 (... Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / provisional / 2020 where.)

Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born January 16, 1988 in Tewkesbury , England ), better known as FKA twigs , is a British musician , singer and dancer . In addition, she regularly writes her own song lyrics . She is often assigned to contemporary R&B , which she herself rates rather critically.

life and work

Tahliah Barnett grew up in rural Gloucestershire and attended a Catholic school in Tewkesbury's neighboring town of Cheltenham . Her father is from Jamaica , her mother has Spanish roots.

At 16 she started writing songs, at 17 she went to London to work as a dancer. So it is in the videos to Do It Like a Dude (2010) and Price Tag (2011) by Jessie J to see. In 2011, she danced in a sketch of the BBC in which Beyoncé Knowles was ridiculed. In August 2012 she graced the cover of the fashion magazine iD .

She got her nickname ' Twigs ' (English for "twigs") because her joints cracked like twigs when she warmed up. Since this name was already used by another artist, she put the abbreviation 'FKA' for ' formerly known as ' in front of it (German "previously known as").

On December 4, 2012, FKA twigs released their first EP on their own , which they called EP1 for short . She published videos on YouTube for each of the songs . On August 1, 2013, the video for their first single Water Me, which was released in 2014, appeared there . The second EP called EP2 was released on September 10, 2013.

On August 6, 2013, the Guardian presented FKA twigs as the “New Band of the Day”. In December 2013, FKA twigs was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2014 . She was put on the Spotlight on 2014 list by Spotify . Billboard presented them under the title "14 Artists to Watch in 2014". In April 2014, she was featured on the cover of the US music magazine The Fader . In July she was also on the cover of the German Spex.

FKA twigs' first album LP1 was released in August 2014 on Young Turks, the music label of The xx , SBTRKT and Wavves , where EP2 was also released. Was produced LP1 for the most part of herself. Support she got in the production of Arca , Sampha and Paul Epworth. She was in a relationship with actor Robert Pattinson from September 2014 to autumn 2017, and even engaged since spring 2015.

In 2018 she danced in a video by Spike Jonze . Because tumors from her uterus had recently been removed in an operation, she had bleeding while filming.

In October 2019, she graced the cover of Zeit magazine .

On the occasion of the Grammy Awards 2020 a tribute concert for Prince took place on January 28, 2020 in the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles under the motto "Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince", in which FKA twigs participated. The concert aired on U.S. television on April 21, 2020, the fourth anniversary of Prince's death.

Musical style

Paul Lester described her in 2013 for the Guardian as "the British representative of a kind of ethereal, eerily expansive R&B, sung by pretty, breathy women" ('a UK exponent of the brand of ethereal, eerily spacious R & B-sung-by-cutely-breathy females' ). In 2014, before the release of her first album, Natalie Brunner spoke for the Austrian radio FM4 of "broken [m] and twisted [m] R'n'B"; only days later, Arno Frank located them for Die Zeit in the “avant-garde R'n'B”, “deliberately disturbing”, performed with an “ethereal soprano”. She herself was critical of the assignment “R'n'B” in an interview in 2019, as this is mostly due to her dark skin color and is “sloppy journalism”.

Discography

Albums

  • 2014: LP1
  • 2019: Magdalene

EPs

  • 2012: EP1
  • 2013: EP2
  • 2015: M3LL155X

Singles

  • 2013: Water Me
  • 2014: FKA x inc.
  • 2014: Two Weeks
  • 2014: Pendulum
  • 2014: Give Up
  • 2014: Video Girl
  • 2016: Good to Love
  • 2019: cellophane
  • 2019: Holy Terrain (feat. Future )
  • 2019: Home with You
  • 2020: Ego Death ( Ty Dolla Sign feat. Kanye West , FKA twigs & Skrillex )

Videos

  • 2012: Hide
  • 2012: Ache
  • 2012: Breathe
  • 2012: Weak Spot
  • 2013: How's That
  • 2013: Water Me
  • 2013: Papi Pacify
  • 2014: FKA x Inc.
  • 2014: Two Weeks
  • 2014: Video Girl
  • 2015: Pendulum
  • 2015: Glass & Patron
  • 2015: M3LL155X
  • 2016: Good to Love
  • 2019: cellophane
  • 2019: Holy Terrain
  • 2019: Home with You

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ a b c Christoph Dallach: "I define myself as punk". Interview. In: Zeitmagazin No. 42/2019. October 9, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Allmusic, see web links.
  4. ↑ a b c Paul Lester: FKA twigs (No 1,569) - So, so amazing ethereal dubstep pop from Gloucestershire. The Guardian , August 6, 2013, accessed October 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Arno Frank : He has the rhythm, she has the blues. Die Zeit , July 24, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
  6. ^ Christian Werthschulte: FKA Twigs strives for transcendence. The daily newspaper , July 25, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson separates from FKA Twigs. bild.de, accessed on October 12, 2017 .
  8. ^ Taryn Ryder: Robert Pattinson Is Engaged to FKA twigs (for Real This Time ) ( Memento of April 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: uk.celebrity.yahoo.com, April 2, 2015, accessed October 10, 2019.
  9. ↑ Zeit-Magazin No. 42, October 10, 2019, p. 20.
  10. ↑ Zeit-Magazin No. 42, October 10, 2019, p. 20.
  11. ↑ Zeit-Magazin No. 42, October 10, 2019, p. 1.
  12. ↑ Chuck Arnold: Grammy salute 'Let's Go Crazy' proves nothing compares 2 Prince. In: nypost.com. April 21, 2020, accessed on May 15, 2020 .
  13. ↑ admin: The Best Moments From 'Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute To Prince' [Videos]. In: liveforlivemusic.com. April 21, 2020, accessed on May 15, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Natalie Brunner: Cracking bones and breaking branches. ORF , July 21, 2014, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME FKA twigs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnett, Tahliah (real name); FKA twigs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British R&B singer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Gloucestershire , England